Array Board and Production Method Thereof, and Liquid Crystal Display Panel

ABSTRACT

An array board and a method for producing an array board are disclosed. In an embodiment an array board includes one or more pixels, each pixel having a first thin film transistor, a pixel electrode, a common electrode and an auxiliary electrode, wherein the first thin film transistor is disposed on a substrate, wherein the pixel electrode is electrically connected to a drain electrode of the first thin film transistor by a via, wherein the auxiliary electrode is disposed at the via, wherein the auxiliary electrode is disposed between the pixel electrode and the drain electrode and the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the drain electrode via the auxiliary electrode, wherein the common electrode is disposed on one side of the pixel electrode and away from the substrate, and wherein an orthographic projection of the common electrode on the substrate and an orthographic projection of the pixel electrode on the substrate do not overlap.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a National Stage of International Application No.PCT/CN2017/073990, filed on Feb. 17, 2017, which claims priority toChinese Patent Application No. 201611031257.9, filed on Nov. 17, 2016.Both of the aforementioned applications are hereby incorporated byreference in their entireties.

TECHNICAL FIELD

This application relates to the field of display technologies, and inparticular, to an array board and a production method thereof, and aliquid crystal display panel.

BACKGROUND

With rapid development of a thin film transistor (Thin Film Transistor,TFT for short) production technology, a liquid crystal display (LiquidCrystal Display, LCD for short) having advantages such as thinness, lowpower consumption, and no radiation has been widely applied to variouselectronic products such as a computer, a personal digital assistant(Personal Digital Assistant, PDA for short), a television, a digitalcamera, and a mobile phone.

Based on positions at which a pixel electrode and a common electrode inthe liquid crystal display are disposed on an array board, the liquidcrystal display may fall into two types: a fringe field switching(Fringe Field Switching, FFS for short) type and an in-plane switching(In Plane Switching, IPS for short) type. Compared with the IPS-typeliquid crystal display, the FFS-type liquid crystal display has hightransmittance, and implements high transmittance at a wide viewingangle. Therefore, an FFS technology is widely applied to the field ofliquid crystal display technologies.

On the array board, the pixel electrode needs to be electricallyconnected to a drain electrode of a thin film transistor. Usually, afterthe drain electrode is formed, a via hole exposing the drain electrodeis formed on an insulation layer, and then the pixel electrode isformed, so that the pixel electrode is electrically connected to thedrain electrode by using the via hole. However, due to a technologychange, a sharp corner usually appears at the via hole that connects thepixel electrode and the drain electrode. Consequently, there is acurrent leakage path between the subsequently formed pixel electrode andcommon electrode, and display non-uniformity occurs.

SUMMARY

Embodiments of the present invention provide an array board and aproduction method thereof, and a liquid crystal display panel. Comparedwith the prior art, no current leakage path is generated, so thatdisplay uniformity can be improved.

To achieve the foregoing objective, the following technical solutionsare used in the embodiments of the present invention:

According to a first aspect, an array board is provided, including aplurality of subpixels, where each subpixel includes a first thin filmtransistor, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode that are disposedon a substrate, and the pixel electrode is electrically connected to adrain electrode of the first thin film transistor by using a via hole.Each subpixel further includes an auxiliary electrode disposed at thevia hole that connects the pixel electrode and the drain electrode ofthe first thin film transistor, where the auxiliary electrode isdisposed between the pixel electrode and the drain electrode of thefirst thin film transistor, and the pixel electrode is electricallyconnected to the drain electrode of the first thin film transistor byusing the auxiliary electrode. The common electrode is disposed on oneside that is of the pixel electrode and that is away from the substrate,and an orthographic projection of the common electrode on the substrateand an orthographic projection of the pixel electrode on the substratedo not overlap at the via hole that connects the pixel electrode and thedrain electrode of the first thin film transistor. The pixel electrodeand the common electrode are stacked on the array board, so that whenthe array board is applied to a liquid crystal display panel, the liquidcrystal display panel can have advantages such as high resolution, hightransmittance, low power consumption, a wide viewing angle, a highaperture ratio, low chromatic aberration, and no push mura. In addition,the orthographic projection of the common electrode on the substrate andthe orthographic projection of the pixel electrode on the substrate donot overlap at the via hole that connects the pixel electrode and thedrain electrode of the first thin film transistor. Therefore, regardlessof a technology change at the via hole, no current leakage path isgenerated because there is no common electrode at the via hole, so thatwhen the array board is applied to a liquid crystal display panel,display uniformity can be improved.

In a first possible implementation of the first aspect, the first thinfilm transistor is a low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin filmtransistor. Therefore, a liquid crystal display panel including thearray board can have advantages such as high mobility, a high reactionspeed, high resolution, high luminance, and a high aperture ratio.

With reference to the first possible implementation of the first aspect,in a second possible implementation of the first aspect, each subpixelfurther includes a second thin film transistor, the second thin filmtransistor is a low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin filmtransistor, and the second thin film transistor and the first thin filmtransistor are connected in series. Two low-temperature polycrystallinesilicon thin film transistors that are connected in series are disposedin each subpixel to drive the pixel electrode, so that drivingperformance of each subpixel can be improved.

With reference to the second possible implementation of the firstaspect, in a third possible implementation of the first aspect, thefirst thin film transistor includes a first active layer, and the secondthin film transistor includes a second active layer; the first activelayer and the second active layer each include a source electroderegion, a channel region, and a drain electrode region, and the sourceelectrode region of the first active layer is connected to the drainelectrode region of the second active layer; and the drain electrode ofthe first thin film transistor is in contact with the drain electroderegion of the first active layer, a source electrode of the second thinfilm transistor is in contact with the source electrode region of thesecond active layer, and the source electrode of the second thin filmtransistor is electrically connected to a data line. Compared with acase in which a drain electrode of the second thin film transistor iselectrically connected to a source electrode of the first thin filmtransistor (that the drain electrode of the second thin film transistoris connected to the source electrode of the first thin film transistoris only for transmitting, to the drain electrode of the first thin filmtransistor, a signal on the data line electrically connected to thesource electrode of the second thin film transistor), in this embodimentof the present invention, the source electrode region of the firstactive layer is connected to the drain electrode region of the secondactive layer, so that the signal on the data line electrically connectedto the source electrode of the second thin film transistor can bedirectly transmitted to the drain electrode of the first thin filmtransistor by using the first active layer and the second active layerthat are connected, without producing the drain electrode of the secondthin film transistor and the source electrode of the first thin filmtransistor. In this way, a production technology can be simplified, andcosts are reduced.

With reference to the third possible implementation of the first aspect,in a fourth possible implementation of the first aspect, the first thinfilm transistor includes a first gate electrode, and the second thinfilm transistor includes a second gate electrode; and the first gateelectrode is electrically connected to the second gate electrode.Therefore, the second thin film transistor and the first thin filmtransistor can be enabled at the same time, and line arrangement and adrive circuit on the array board can be simplified.

With reference to any one of the foregoing possible implementations, ina fifth possible implementation of the first aspect, the array boardfurther includes a touch electrode and a touch electrode leadelectrically connected to the touch electrode, the touch electrode leadand the auxiliary electrode are synchronously formed, and the auxiliaryelectrode and the touch electrode lead are insulated from each other.The touch electrode and the touch electrode lead electrically connectedto the touch electrode are disposed on the array board, so that when thearray board is applied to a liquid crystal display panel, the liquidcrystal display panel can have a touch function. On a basis of this, thetouch electrode lead and the auxiliary electrode are synchronouslyformed, so that a quantity of times of using a pattern formingtechnology can be reduced.

Further, the touch electrode includes a drive electrode and an inductionelectrode. The drive electrode extends in a first direction, theinduction electrode extends in a second direction, and the firstdirection and the second direction are crossed. A touch electrode leadelectrically connected to the drive electrode is configured to provide atouch drive signal for the drive electrode, and a touch electrode leadelectrically connected to the induction electrode is configured toreceive a touch induction signal induced by the induction electrode. Inthis way, a touch position can be identified in a mutual-capacitancemanner.

Alternatively, touch electrodes are arranged into an array, and thetouch electrode lead electrically connected to the touch electrodeprovides a touch drive signal for the touch electrode, and receives atouch induction signal induced by the touch electrode. In this way, atouch position can be identified in a self-capacitance manner.

With reference to the fifth possible implementation of the first aspect,in a sixth possible implementation of the first aspect, the touchelectrode and the common electrode are interchangeable. In this way, thetouch position can be identified in a self-capacitance manner, and atechnology of producing the array board is simpler.

With reference to any one of the foregoing possible implementations, ina seventh possible implementation of the first aspect, the array boardfurther includes a buffer layer that is disposed on a surface, of thesubstrate, on which the first thin film transistor, the pixel electrode,and the common electrode are disposed. The buffer layer is disposed onthe surface of the substrate first, and then the first thin filmtransistor or even the second thin film transistor is disposed on thebuffer layer. Therefore, the first thin film transistor and the secondthin film transistor can be combined with the substrate more steadily;in addition, harmful impurities and ions in the substrate can beprevented from spreading to the first thin film transistor and thesecond thin film transistor, to avoid affecting performance of the firstthin film transistor and the second thin film transistor.

According to a second aspect, a liquid crystal display panel isprovided, including the array board in the first aspect, and furtherincluding a color film substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposedbetween the array board and the color film substrate. The liquid crystaldisplay panel achieves same technical effects as those achieved in thefirst aspect, and details are not described herein again.

According to a third aspect, a production method of an array board isprovided, where the method includes: successively forming a first thinfilm transistor, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode on asubstrate in each subpixel region, where the pixel electrode iselectrically connected to a drain electrode of the first thin filmtransistor by using a via hole; and the production method of an arrayboard further includes: further forming, in each subpixel region, anauxiliary electrode at the via hole that connects the pixel electrodeand the drain electrode of the first thin film transistor, where theauxiliary electrode is located between the pixel electrode and the drainelectrode of the first thin film transistor, and the pixel electrode iselectrically connected to the drain electrode of the first thin filmtransistor by using the auxiliary electrode, where an orthographicprojection of the common electrode on the substrate and an orthographicprojection of the pixel electrode on the substrate do not overlap at thevia hole that connects the pixel electrode and the drain electrode ofthe first thin film transistor. The method achieves same technicaleffects as those achieved by the array board in the first aspect, anddetails are not described herein again.

Further, the first thin film transistor is a low-temperaturepolycrystalline silicon thin film transistor. Therefore, a liquidcrystal display panel including the array board can have advantages suchas high mobility, a high reaction speed, high resolution, highluminance, and a high aperture ratio.

In a first possible implementation of the third aspect, the productionmethod of an array board further includes: forming a second thin filmtransistor on the substrate in each subpixel region, where the firstthin film transistor and the second thin film transistor arelow-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin film transistors and areconnected in series, and the second thin film transistor and the firstthin film transistor are synchronously formed. Two low-temperaturepolycrystalline silicon thin film transistors that are connected inseries are disposed in each subpixel to drive the pixel electrode, sothat driving performance of each subpixel can be improved.

With reference to the first possible implementation of the third aspect,in a second possible implementation of the third aspect, the first thinfilm transistor includes a first active layer, and the second thin filmtransistor includes a second active layer; the first active layer andthe second active layer each include a source electrode region, achannel region, and a drain electrode region, and in this embodiment ofthe present invention, the source electrode region of the first activelayer is connected to the drain electrode region of the second activelayer; and the drain electrode of the first thin film transistor is incontact with the drain electrode region of the first active layer, asource electrode of the second thin film transistor is in contact withthe source electrode region of the second active layer, and the sourceelectrode of the second thin film transistor is electrically connectedto a data line. Compared with a case in which a drain electrode of thesecond thin film transistor is electrically connected to a sourceelectrode of the first thin film transistor (that the drain electrode ofthe second thin film transistor is connected to the source electrode ofthe first thin film transistor is only for transmitting, to the drainelectrode of the first thin film transistor, a signal on the data lineelectrically connected to the source electrode of the second thin filmtransistor), in this embodiment of the present invention, the sourceelectrode region of the first active layer is connected to the drainelectrode region of the second active layer, so that the signal on thedata line electrically connected to the source electrode of the secondthin film transistor can be directly transmitted to the drain electrodeof the first thin film transistor by using the first active layer andthe second active layer that are connected, without producing the drainelectrode of the second thin film transistor and the source electrode ofthe first thin film transistor. In this way, a production technology canbe simplified, and costs are reduced.

With reference to the second possible implementation of the thirdaspect, in a third possible implementation of the third aspect, thefirst thin film transistor includes a first gate electrode, and thesecond thin film transistor includes a second gate electrode; and thefirst gate electrode is electrically connected to the second gateelectrode. Therefore, the second thin film transistor and the first thinfilm transistor can be enabled at the same time, and line arrangementand a drive circuit on the array board can be simplified.

With reference to any one of the foregoing possible implementations, ina fourth possible implementation of the third aspect, the productionmethod of an array board further includes: forming a touch electrode anda touch electrode lead electrically connected to the touch electrode,where the touch electrode lead and the auxiliary electrode aresynchronously formed, and the auxiliary electrode and the touchelectrode lead are insulated from each other. The touch electrode andthe touch electrode lead electrically connected to the touch electrodeare formed on the array board, so that when the array board is appliedto a liquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display panel canhave a touch function. On a basis of this, the touch electrode lead andthe auxiliary electrode are synchronously formed, so that a quantity oftimes of using a pattern forming technology can be reduced.

Further, the touch electrode includes a drive electrode and an inductionelectrode. The drive electrode extends in a first direction, theinduction electrode extends in a second direction, and the firstdirection and the second direction are crossed. A touch electrode leadelectrically connected to the drive electrode is configured to provide atouch drive signal for the drive electrode, and a touch electrode leadelectrically connected to the induction electrode is configured toreceive a touch induction signal induced by the induction electrode. Inthis way, a touch position can be identified in a mutual-capacitancemanner.

Alternatively, touch electrodes are arranged into an array, and thetouch electrode lead electrically connected to the touch electrodeprovides a touch drive signal for the touch electrode, and receives atouch induction signal induced by the touch electrode. In this way, atouch position can be identified in a self-capacitance manner.

With reference to the fourth possible implementation of the thirdaspect, in a fifth possible implementation of the third aspect, thetouch electrode and the common electrode are interchangeable. In thisway, the touch position can be identified in a self-capacitance manner,and a technology of producing the array board is simpler.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a first schematic top view of an array board according to anembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view in an AA′ direction in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram existing when there is a common electrodeat a via hole that is used to electrically connect a pixel electrode anda drain electrode;

FIG. 4 is a first schematic structural diagram of a first thin filmtransistor on an array board according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 5 is a second schematic structural diagram of a first thin filmtransistor on an array board according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 6 is a second schematic top view of an array board according to anembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a first schematic sectional view in a BB′ direction in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a second schematic sectional view in a BB′ direction in FIG.7;

FIG. 9A and FIG. 9B are a schematic flowchart of a production method ofan array board according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10a is a schematic diagram of a process of forming a buffer layer,a first active layer, and a second active layer on a substrate in aproduction method process according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 10b is a schematic sectional view in a CC′ direction in FIG. 10 a;

FIG. 11a is a schematic diagram of a process of forming a gateinsulation layer, a first gate electrode, and a second gate electrode ona basis of FIG. 10 a;

FIG. 11b is a first schematic sectional view in a DD′ direction in FIG.11 a;

FIG. 11c is a second schematic sectional view in a DD′ direction in FIG.11 a;

FIG. 12a is a schematic diagram of a process of forming an inter-layerinsulation layer, a source electrode of a second thin film transistor, adata line, and a drain electrode of a first thin film transistor on abasis of FIG. 11 a;

FIG. 12b is a schematic sectional view in an EE′ direction in FIG. 12 a;

FIG. 13a is a schematic diagram of a process of forming, on a basis ofFIG. 12a , a first insulation layer that includes a first via hole;

FIG. 13b is a schematic sectional view in an FF′ direction in FIG. 13 a;

FIG. 14a is a schematic diagram of a process of forming an auxiliaryelectrode on a basis of FIG. 13 a;

FIG. 14b is a schematic sectional view in a GG′ direction in FIG. 14a ;and

FIG. 14c is a schematic diagram of a process of forming, on a basis ofFIG. 14b , a second insulation layer that includes a second via hole.

REFERENCE NUMERALS

10: Subpixel; 20: Substrate; 30: First thin film transistor; 40: Pixelelectrode; 50: Common electrode; 60: Via hole; 70: Auxiliary electrode;80: Second thin film transistor; 90: Buffer layer; 301: Drain electrodeof the first thin film transistor; 302: First active layer; 303: Gateinsulation layer; 304: First gate electrode; 305: Inter-layer insulationlayer; 308: Source electrode of the first thin film transistor; 3021:Channel region; 3022: Source electrode region; 3023: Drain electroderegion; 3024: Lightly doped region; 3025: Heavily doped region; 801:Source electrode of the second thin film transistor; 802: Second activelayer; 803: Data line; 804: Second gate electrode; 805: Gate line; 200:First insulation layer; 201: First via hole; 202: Second insulationlayer; 203: Second via hole.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIVE EMBODIMENTS

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, an aspect of the present inventionprovides an array board, including a plurality of subpixels 10. Eachsubpixel 10 includes a first thin film transistor 30, a pixel electrode40, and a common electrode 50 that are disposed on a substrate 20, andthe pixel electrode 40 is electrically connected to a drain electrode301 of the first thin film transistor by using a via hole 60. Eachsubpixel 10 further includes an auxiliary electrode 70 disposed at thevia hole 60 that connects the pixel electrode 40 and the drain electrode301 of the first thin film transistor. The auxiliary electrode 70 isdisposed between the pixel electrode 40 and the drain electrode 301 ofthe first thin film transistor, and the pixel electrode 40 iselectrically connected to the drain electrode 301 of the first thin filmtransistor by using the auxiliary electrode 70.

The common electrode 50 is disposed on one side that is of the pixelelectrode 40 and that is away from the substrate 20, and an orthographicprojection of the common electrode 50 on the substrate 20 and anorthographic projection of the pixel electrode 40 on the substrate 20 donot overlap at the via hole 60 that connects the pixel electrode 40 andthe drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistor.

It should be noted that, for the pixel electrode 40 and the commonelectrode 50, because the common electrode 50 is disposed on the sidethat is of the pixel electrode 40 and that is away from the substrate20, the common electrode 50 needs to include a plurality of stripelectrodes that are electrically connected, and the pixel electrode 40may be disposed as a planar electrode.

If the common electrode 50 is disposed in a prior-art manner, aschematic diagram of the via hole 60 that connects the pixel electrode40 and the drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistor isshown in FIG. 3. A sharp corner in a dashed-line box shown in the figurecauses a current leakage path between the pixel electrode 40 and thecommon electrode 50. However, in this aspect of the present invention,the orthographic projection of the common electrode 50 on the substrate20 and the orthographic projection of the pixel electrode 40 on thesubstrate 20 do not overlap at the via hole 60 that connects the pixelelectrode 40 and the drain electrode 301 of the first thin filmtransistor, to be specific, the common electrode 50 is removed from thevia hole 60, so that a current leakage path can be avoided.

According to the array board provided in this aspect of the presentinvention, the pixel electrode 40 and the common electrode 50 arestacked on the array board, so that when the array board is applied to aliquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display panel can haveadvantages such as high resolution, high transmittance, low powerconsumption, a wide viewing angle, a high aperture ratio, low chromaticaberration, and no push mura. In addition, the orthographic projectionof the common electrode 50 on the substrate 20 and the orthographicprojection of the pixel electrode 40 on the substrate 20 do not overlapat the via hole 60 that connects the pixel electrode 40 and the drainelectrode 301 of the first thin film transistor. Therefore, regardlessof a technology change at the via hole 60, no current leakage path isgenerated because there is no common electrode 50 at the via hole 60, sothat when the array board is applied to a liquid crystal display panel,display uniformity can be improved.

Based on the foregoing array board, a type of the first thin filmtransistor 30 may not be limited. For example, the first thin filmtransistor 30 may be an amorphous silicon thin film transistor, an oxidethin film transistor, a polycrystalline silicon thin film transistor, orthe like.

Specifically, the type of the first thin film transistor 30 depends on amaterial of an active layer. When the material of the active layer is anamorphous silicon material, the first thin film transistor 30 is anamorphous silicon thin film transistor (as shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2).

When the material of the active layer is an oxide semiconductormaterial, the first thin film transistor 30 is an oxide thin filmtransistor (as shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2). For example, the oxidesemiconductor material may include at least one of indium gallium zincoxide (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide, IGZO for short), indium zinc oxide(Indium Zinc Oxide, IZO for short), zinc oxide (ZnO), and gallium zincoxide (Gallium Zinc Oxide, GZO for short). In addition, based on aproduction technology, the oxide thin film transistor may further fallinto an oxide thin film transistor of a back-channel etching type and anoxide thin film transistor of an etching-stop type. Compared with theoxide thin film transistor of the back-channel etching type, the oxidethin film transistor of the etching-stop type includes an extraetching-stop layer disposed above an active layer.

When the material of the active layer is a polycrystalline siliconmaterial, the first thin film transistor 30 is a polycrystalline siliconthin film transistor. Based on a polycrystalline silicon formingtechnology, the polycrystalline silicon thin film transistor may includea low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin film transistor.

Therefore, the first thin film transistor 30 may be of a bottom-gatetype or a top-gate type. The bottom-gate type is used as an example forillustration in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2.

The pixel electrode 40 and the common electrode 50 may be made oftransparent conductive materials, which, for example, may be indium tinoxide (Indium Tin Oxides, ITO for short) or IZO.

For example, the auxiliary electrode 70 and another function pattern onthe array board may be synchronously formed (or disposed on a samelayer), namely, when the another function pattern is formed on the arrayboard, the auxiliary electrode 70 may be formed at the via hole 60 thatconnects the pixel electrode 40 and the drain electrode 301 of the firstthin film transistor. In this way, a quantity of times of using apattern forming technology during array board production may not beincreased. In this case, to avoid a short circuit between the anotherfunction pattern and the first thin film transistor 30, the pixelelectrode 40, and the like, as shown in FIG. 2, the auxiliary electrode70 may be electrically connected to the drain electrode 301 of the firstthin film transistor by using a first via hole on a first insulationlayer disposed between the auxiliary electrode 70 and the drainelectrode 301 of the first thin film transistor, and the pixel electrode40 may be electrically connected to the auxiliary electrode 70 by usinga second via hole on a second insulation layer disposed between thepixel electrode 40 and the auxiliary electrode 70. The first via holeand the second via hole form the via hole 60 that is used toelectrically connect the pixel electrode 40 and the drain electrode 301of the first thin film transistor.

Certainly, if the quantity of times of using a pattern formingtechnology is not considered, and adding the auxiliary electrode 70 mayensure a yield rate obtained when the pixel electrode 40 is electricallyconnected to the drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistorat the via hole 60, the auxiliary electrode 70 may be independentlyformed by using a pattern forming technology once.

A material of the auxiliary electrode 70 may be a metal conductivematerial or a transparent conductive material. This may be set based onan actual case.

Embodiment 1: As shown in FIG. 4, the first thin film transistor 30 onthe array board is a low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LowTemperature Poly-Silicon, LTPS for short) thin film transistor.

Therefore, a liquid crystal display panel including the array board canhave advantages such as high mobility, a high reaction speed, highresolution, high luminance, and a high aperture ratio.

For example, as shown in FIG. 4, a structure of the first thin filmtransistor 30 may be as follows: A first active layer 302 is disposednearby the substrate 20; the first active layer 302 may include achannel region 3021, a source electrode region 3022, and a drainelectrode region 3023; a gate insulation layer 303, a first gateelectrode 304, and an inter-layer insulation layer 305 are successivelydisposed on one side that is of the first active layer 302 and that isaway from the substrate 20; and a source electrode 308 and the drainelectrode 301 of the first thin film transistor are disposed on theinter-layer insulation layer 305, and are respectively in contact within this embodiment of the present invention, the source electrode region3022 and the drain electrode region 3023 by using third via holespenetrating through the inter-layer insulation layer 305 and the gateinsulation layer 303.

On a basis of this, to suppress current leakage, as shown in FIG. 5, thesource electrode region 3022 and the drain electrode region 3023 eachmay include a lightly doped region 3024 and a heavily doped region 3025,and the lightly doped region 3024 is located between the heavily dopedregion 3025 and the channel region 3021. The source electrode 308 andthe drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistor arerespectively in contact with the heavily doped regions 3025 on two sidesof the channel region 3021.

Regardless of the structure of the first thin film transistor 30 shownin FIG. 4 or the structure of the first thin film transistor 30 shown inFIG. 5, when the subpixel includes only the first thin film transistor30, the source electrode 308 of the first thin film transistor iselectrically connected to a data line, the drain electrode 301 of thefirst thin film transistor is electrically connected to the pixelelectrode 40 by using the auxiliary electrode 70, and the first gateelectrode 304 is electrically connected to a gate line, or the firstgate electrode 304 is included in a gate line (namely, the first gateelectrode 304 is a part of the gate line).

Embodiment 2: As shown in FIG. 6, each subpixel on the array boardfurther includes a second thin film transistor 80, and the first thinfilm transistor 30 and the second thin film transistor 80 arelow-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin film transistors.

The second thin film transistor 80 and the first thin film transistor 30are connected in series.

It should be noted that, when the second thin film transistor 80 and thefirst thin film transistor 30 are connected in series, because the drainelectrode 301 of the first thin film transistor is electricallyconnected to the pixel electrode 40, a source electrode 801 of thesecond thin film transistor needs to be electrically connected to a dataline 803. In this way, a signal on the data line 803 can be transmittedto the drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistor by usingthe second thin film transistor 80 and the first thin film transistor 30that are connected in series, and then transmitted to the pixelelectrode 40 by using the drain electrode 301 of the first thin filmtransistor.

Therefore, two low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin filmtransistors that are connected in series are disposed in each subpixel10 to drive the pixel electrode 40, so that driving performance of eachsubpixel 10 can be improved.

Embodiment 3: As shown in FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, in each subpixel 10 on thearray board, on a basis of a fact that the first thin film transistor 30and the second thin film transistor 80 are low-temperaturepolycrystalline silicon thin film transistors, the first thin filmtransistor 30 includes the first active layer 302, and the second thinfilm transistor 80 includes a second active layer 802. The first activelayer 302 and the second active layer 802 each include the channelregion 3021, in this embodiment of the present invention, the sourceelectrode region 3022, and the drain electrode region 3023. The sourceelectrode region 3022 of the first active layer 302 is connected to thedrain electrode region 3023 of the second active layer 802.

The drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistor is in contactwith the drain electrode region 3023 of the first active layer 302, thesource electrode 801 of the second thin film transistor is in contactwith in this embodiment of the present invention, the source electroderegion 3022 of the second active layer 802, and the source electrode 801of the second thin film transistor is electrically connected to the dataline 803.

It should be noted that, that in this embodiment of the presentinvention, the source electrode region 3022 of the first active layer302 is connected to the drain electrode region 3023 of the second activelayer 802 may be as follows: The first active layer 302 and the secondactive layer 802 are formed integrally, so that in this embodiment ofthe present invention, the source electrode region 3022 of the firstactive layer 302 and the drain electrode region 3023 of the secondactive layer 802 are approaching and seamlessly connected.

On a basis of this, to suppress current leakage, in this embodiment ofthe present invention, the source electrode region 3022 and the drainelectrode region 3023 each may include the lightly doped region 3024 andthe heavily doped region 3025. Therefore, that in this embodiment of thepresent invention, the source electrode region 3022 of the first activelayer 302 is connected to the drain electrode region 3023 of the secondactive layer 802 may be as follows: The heavily doped region 3025 of inthis embodiment of the present invention, the source electrode region3022 of the first active layer 302 is connected to the heavily dopedregion 3025 of the drain electrode region 3023 of the second activelayer 802.

Compared with a case in which a drain electrode of the second thin filmtransistor 80 is electrically connected to the source electrode of thefirst thin film transistor 30 (that the drain electrode of the secondthin film transistor 80 is connected to the source electrode of thefirst thin film transistor 30 is only for transmitting, to the drainelectrode 301 of the first thin film transistor, the signal on the dataline 803 electrically connected to the source electrode 801 of thesecond thin film transistor), in Embodiment 3, in this embodiment of thepresent invention, the source electrode region 3022 of the first activelayer 302 is connected to the drain electrode region 3023 of the secondactive layer 802, so that the signal on the data line 803 electricallyconnected to the source electrode 801 of the second thin film transistorcan be directly transmitted to the drain electrode 301 of the first thinfilm transistor by using the first active layer 302 and the secondactive layer 802 that are connected, without producing the drainelectrode of the second thin film transistor 80 and the source electrodeof the first thin film transistor 30. In this way, a productiontechnology can be simplified, and costs are reduced.

On a basis of Embodiment 3, further, if the signal on the data line 803needs to be transmitted to the drain electrode 301 of the first thinfilm transistor, it is necessary to ensure that the second thin filmtransistor 80 and the first thin film transistor 30 are enabled at thesame time. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 6, when the first gate electrode304 of the first thin film transistor is electrically connected to asecond gate electrode 804 of the second transistor, the second thin filmtransistor 80 and the first thin film transistor 30 can be enabled atthe same time, and line arrangement and a drive circuit on the arrayboard can be simplified.

For technology simplification, the first gate electrode 304 and thesecond gate electrode 804 may be synchronously formed.

Therefore, the first gate electrode 304 and the second gate electrode804 in a same subpixel may be electrically connected to a same gateline, and are synchronously formed. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 6,one of the first gate electrode 304 and the second gate electrode 804 isa part of a gate line 805, the other is electrically connected to thegate line 805, and the first gate electrode 304 and the second gateelectrode 804 are synchronously formed.

Based on the foregoing possible structures of the array board, inEmbodiment 4, the array board further includes a touch electrode and atouch electrode lead electrically connected to the touch electrode. Thetouch electrode lead and the auxiliary electrode 70 are synchronouslyformed, and the auxiliary electrode 70 and the touch electrode lead areinsulated from each other.

The touch electrode lead is configured to: provide a touch drive signalfor the touch electrode and/or receive a touch induction signal.

Specifically, the touch electrode may identify a touch position in amutual-capacitance manner. On a basis of this, the touch electrode mayinclude a drive electrode and an induction electrode. The driveelectrode extends in a first direction, the induction electrode extendsin a second direction, and the first direction and the second directionare crossed. The touch drive signal is applied to the drive electroderow by row, the induction electrode receives the touch induction signal,and the touch position is determined based on a change of the signal onthe induction electrode and the drive electrode to which the drivesignal is applied.

Either of the drive electrode and the induction electrode may bedisposed on the array board. When one of the drive electrode and theinduction electrode is disposed on the array board, the other may bedisposed on a color film substrate of a liquid crystal display panel towhich the array board is applied.

Alternatively, the touch electrode may identify a touch position in aself-capacitance manner. On a basis of this, touch electrodes arearranged into an array. The touch drive signal is applied to the touchelectrode, and the touch induction signal is received. The receivedtouch induction signal changes with capacitance on the touch electrodeat the touch position, so that the touch position can be determined.

It should be noted that, a specific position and manner for disposingthe touch electrode are not limited, provided that when the array boardis applied to a liquid crystal display panel, normal display of theliquid crystal display panel is not affected while the touch electrodecan identify the touch position.

Considering that resistance of the metal conductive material isrelatively small, materials of both the auxiliary electrode 70 and thetouch electrode lead may be metal conductive materials.

On a basis of Embodiment 4, further, the touch electrode and the commonelectrode 50 may be interchangeable. In this case, the touch positioncan be identified only in a self-capacitance manner.

There may be a plurality of common electrodes 50 that are arranged intoan array, and the common electrodes 50 are disposed in a plurality ofsubpixels for performing display and touching alternately.

In Embodiment 4, the touch electrode and the touch electrode leadelectrically connected to the touch electrode are disposed on the arrayboard, so that when the array board is applied to a liquid crystaldisplay panel, the liquid crystal display panel can have a touchfunction. On a basis of this, the touch electrode lead and the auxiliaryelectrode 70 are synchronously formed, so that the quantity of times ofusing a pattern forming technology can be reduced.

Based on the foregoing possible structures of the array board, inEmbodiment 5, as shown in FIG. 8, the array board further includes abuffer layer 90 that is disposed on a surface, of the substrate 20, onwhich the first thin film transistor 30, the pixel electrode 40, and thecommon electrode 50 are disposed.

The buffer layer 90 may have a single-layer or multi-layer structure.

For example, when the buffer layer 90 has the single-layer structure, amaterial of the buffer layer 90 may be, for example, silicon oxide(SiOx) or silicon nitride (SiNx). When the buffer layer 90 has thestructure including two or more layers, the buffer layer 90 may be acomposite film layer of a silicon oxide layer and a silicon nitridelayer.

The buffer layer 90 is disposed on the surface of the substrate 20first, and then the first thin film transistor 30 or even the secondthin film transistor 80 is disposed on the buffer layer 90. Therefore,the first thin film transistor 30 and the second thin film transistor 80can be combined with the substrate 20 more steadily; in addition,harmful impurities and ions in the substrate 20 can be prevented fromspreading to the first thin film transistor 30 and the second thin filmtransistor 80, to avoid affecting performance of the first thin filmtransistor 30 and the second thin film transistor 80.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a liquid crystaldisplay panel, including the array board having any one of the foregoingstructures, and further including a color film substrate and a liquidcrystal layer disposed between the array board and the color filmsubstrate.

The color film substrate may include a color filter layer and a blackmatrix. The color filter layer may include a first-color filter pattern,a second-color filter pattern, and a third-color filter pattern. Thefirst-color filter pattern, the second-color filter pattern, and thethird-color filter are in a one-to-one correspondence with threesubpixels in one pixel on the array board. First color, second color,and third color are red, green, and blue, or may be cyan, magenta, andyellow. In addition, the color filter layer may further include a whitefilter pattern, and the white filter pattern may be corresponding toanother subpixel other than the foregoing three subpixels in the pixelon the array board.

It should be noted that, the color filter layer may also be disposed onthe array board.

According to the liquid crystal display panel provided in the anotheraspect of the present invention, the pixel electrode 40 and the commonelectrode 50 are stacked on the array board, so that the liquid crystaldisplay panel can have advantages such as high resolution, hightransmittance, low power consumption, a wide viewing angle, a highaperture ratio, low chromatic aberration, and no push mura. In addition,the orthographic projection of the common electrode 50 on the substrate20 and the orthographic projection of the pixel electrode 40 on thesubstrate 20 do not overlap at the via hole 60, of the array board, thatconnects the pixel electrode 40 and the drain electrode 301 of the firstthin film transistor. Therefore, regardless of a technology change atthe via hole 60, no current leakage path is generated because there isno common electrode 50 at the via hole 60, so that display uniformity ofthe display panel can be improved.

Still another aspect of the present invention provides a liquid crystaldisplay apparatus, including the foregoing liquid crystal display panel.

The liquid crystal display apparatus may be specifically a product or acomponent having any display function, for example, a liquid crystaldisplay, a liquid crystal display television, a digital photo frame, amobile phone, or a tablet computer.

Yet another aspect of the present invention provides a production methodof an array board. As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the method includes:successively forming a first thin film transistor 30, a pixel electrode40, and a common electrode 50 on a substrate 20 in a region of eachsubpixel 10. The pixel electrode 40 is electrically connected to a drainelectrode 301 of the first thin film transistor by using a via hole 60.The production method further includes: further forming, in the regionof each subpixel 10, an auxiliary electrode 70 at the via hole 60 thatconnects the pixel electrode 40 and the drain electrode 301 of the firstthin film transistor. The auxiliary electrode 70 is located between thepixel electrode 40 and the drain electrode 301 of the first thin filmtransistor, and the pixel electrode 40 is electrically connected to thedrain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistor by using theauxiliary electrode 70.

An orthographic projection of the common electrode 50 on the substrate20 and an orthographic projection of the pixel electrode 40 on thesubstrate 20 do not overlap at the via hole 60 that connects the pixelelectrode 40 and the drain electrode 301 of the first thin filmtransistor.

It should be noted that, for the pixel electrode 40 and the commonelectrode 50, because the common electrode 50 is formed on one side thatis of the pixel electrode 40 and that is away from the substrate 20, thecommon electrode 50 needs to include a plurality of strip electrodesthat are electrically connected, and the pixel electrode 40 may beformed into a planar electrode.

The orthographic projection of the common electrode 50 on the substrate20 and the orthographic projection of the pixel electrode 40 on thesubstrate 20 do not overlap at the via hole 60 that connects the pixelelectrode 40 and the drain electrode 301 of the first thin filmtransistor, to be specific, when the common electrode 50 is formed, apart that is of the common electrode 50 and is located at the via hole60 is removed.

In the production method of an array board provided in the yet anotheraspect of the present invention, the pixel electrode 40 and the commonelectrode 50 are formed on the array board, and the common electrode 50is formed on the side that is of the pixel electrode 40 and that is awayfrom the substrate 20, so that when the array board is applied to aliquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display panel can haveadvantages such as high resolution, high transmittance, low powerconsumption, a wide viewing angle, a high aperture ratio, low chromaticaberration, and no push mura. In addition, the orthographic projectionof the common electrode 50 on the substrate 20 and the orthographicprojection of the pixel electrode 40 on the substrate 20 do not overlapat the via hole 60 that connects the pixel electrode 40 and the drainelectrode 301 of the first thin film transistor. Therefore, regardlessof a technology change at the via hole 60, no current leakage path isgenerated because there is no common electrode 50 at the via hole 60, sothat when the array board is applied to a liquid crystal display panel,display uniformity can be improved.

Based on the foregoing production method of an array board, when thefirst thin film transistor 30 is formed, different types of thin filmtransistors may be formed based on a requirement, for example, anamorphous silicon thin film transistor, an oxide thin film transistor,and a polycrystalline silicon thin film transistor. Therefore, the firstthin film transistor 30 may be of a bottom-gate type or a top-gate type.

The pixel electrode 40 and the common electrode 50 may be made oftransparent conductive materials, which, for example, may be ITO or IZO.

For example, the auxiliary electrode 70 and another function pattern onthe array board may be synchronously formed, namely, when the anotherfunction pattern is formed on the array board, the auxiliary electrode70 may be formed at the via hole 60 that electrically connects the pixelelectrode 40 and the drain electrode 301 of the first thin filmtransistor. In this way, a quantity of times of using a pattern formingtechnology during array board production may not be increased. In thiscase, to avoid a short circuit between the another function pattern andthe first thin film transistor 30, the pixel electrode 40, and the like,as shown in FIG. 2, the auxiliary electrode 70 may be electricallyconnected to the drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistorby using a first via hole on a first insulation layer formed between theauxiliary electrode 70 and the drain electrode 301 of the first thinfilm transistor, and the pixel electrode 40 may be electricallyconnected to the auxiliary electrode 70 by using a second via hole on asecond insulation layer formed between the pixel electrode 40 and theauxiliary electrode 70. The first via hole and the second via hole formthe via hole 60 that is used to electrically connect the pixel electrode40 and the drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistor.

A material of the auxiliary electrode 70 may be a metal conductivematerial or a transparent conductive material. This may be set based onan actual case.

Based on the foregoing descriptions of the production method of an arrayboard, considering that a liquid crystal display apparatus including alow-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin film transistor hasadvantages such as high mobility, a high reaction speed, highresolution, high luminance, and a high aperture ratio, the first thinfilm transistor 30 may be a low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thinfilm transistor. For a structure of the first thin film transistor 30,refer to FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 and the related descriptions thereof. Detailsare not described herein again.

On a basis of this, as shown in FIG. 6, the production method of anarray board further includes: forming a second thin film transistor 80on the substrate 20 in each subpixel region. The first thin filmtransistor 30 and the second thin film transistor 80 are low-temperaturepolycrystalline silicon thin film transistors and are connected inseries, and the second thin film transistor 80 and the first thin filmtransistor 30 are synchronously formed.

It should be noted that, when the second thin film transistor 80 and thefirst thin film transistor 30 are connected in series, because the drainelectrode 301 of the first thin film transistor is electricallyconnected to the pixel electrode 40, a source electrode 801 of thesecond thin film transistor needs to be electrically connected to a dataline 803. In this way, a signal on the data line 803 can be transmittedto the drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistor by usingthe second thin film transistor 80 and the first thin film transistor 30that are connected in series, and then transmitted to the pixelelectrode 40 by using the drain electrode 301 of the first thin filmtransistor.

Therefore, two low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin filmtransistors that are connected in series are formed in each subpixel 10to drive the pixel electrode 40, so that driving performance of eachsubpixel 10 can be improved. In addition, the second thin filmtransistor 80 and the first thin film transistor 30 are synchronouslyformed, so that the quantity of times of using a pattern formingtechnology may not be increased, thereby reducing costs.

Further, as shown in FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, on a basis of a fact that thefirst thin film transistor 30 and the second thin film transistor 80 arelow-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin film transistors, the firstthin film transistor 30 includes a first active layer 302, and thesecond thin film transistor 80 includes a second active layer 802. Thefirst active layer 302 and the second active layer 802 each include achannel region 3021, a source electrode region 3022, and a drainelectrode region 3023. In this embodiment of the present invention, thesource electrode region 3022 of the first active layer 302 is connectedto the drain electrode region 3023 of the second active layer 802.

The drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistor is in contactwith the drain electrode region 3023 of the first active layer 302, thesource electrode 801 of the second thin film transistor is in contactwith the source electrode region 3022 of the second active layer 802,and the source electrode 801 of the second thin film transistor iselectrically connected to the data line 803.

It should be noted that, that the source electrode region 3022 of thefirst active layer 302 is connected to the drain electrode region 3023of the second active layer 802 may be as follows: The first active layer302 and the second active layer 802 are formed integrally, so that thesource electrode region 3022 of the first active layer 302 and the drainelectrode region 3023 of the second active layer 802 are approaching andseamlessly connected.

On a basis of this, to suppress current leakage, the source electroderegion 3022 and the drain electrode region 3023 each may include alightly doped region 3024 and a heavily doped region 3025. Therefore,that the source electrode region 3022 of the first active layer 302 isconnected to the drain electrode region 3023 of the second active layer802 may be as follows: The heavily doped region 3025 of the sourceelectrode region 3022 of the first active layer 302 is connected to theheavily doped region 3025 of the drain electrode region 3023 of thesecond active layer 802.

Compared with a case in which a drain electrode of the second thin filmtransistor 80 is electrically connected to the source electrode of thefirst thin film transistor 30 (that the drain electrode of the secondthin film transistor 80 is connected to the source electrode of thefirst thin film transistor 30 is only for transmitting, to the drainelectrode 301 of the first thin film transistor, the signal on the dataline 803 electrically connected to the source electrode 801 of thesecond thin film transistor), the source electrode region 3022 of thefirst active layer 302 is connected to the drain electrode region 3023of the second active layer 802, so that the signal on the data line 803electrically connected to the source electrode 801 of the second thinfilm transistor can be directly transmitted to the drain electrode 301of the first thin film transistor by using the first active layer 302and the second active layer 802 that are connected, without producingthe drain electrode of the second thin film transistor 80 and the sourceelectrode of the first thin film transistor 30. In this way, aproduction technology can be simplified, and costs are reduced.

Further, if the signal on the data line 803 needs to be transmitted tothe drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistor, it isnecessary to ensure that the second thin film transistor 80 and thefirst thin film transistor 30 are enabled at the same time. Therefore,as shown in FIG. 6, when a first gate electrode 304 of the first thinfilm transistor is electrically connected to a second gate electrode 804of the second transistor, the second thin film transistor 80 and thefirst thin film transistor 30 can be enabled at the same time, and linearrangement and a drive circuit on the array board can be simplified.

For technology simplification, the first gate electrode 304 and thesecond gate electrode 804 may be synchronously formed.

Therefore, the first gate electrode 304 and the second gate electrode804 in a same subpixel may be electrically connected to a same gateline, and are synchronously formed. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 6,one of the first gate electrode 304 and the second gate electrode 804 isa part of a gate line 805, the other is electrically connected to thegate line 805, and the first gate electrode 304 and the second gateelectrode 804 are synchronously formed.

Based on the foregoing possible production methods of an array board,the production method of an array board may further include: forming atouch electrode and a touch electrode lead electrically connected to thetouch electrode. The touch electrode lead and the auxiliary electrode 70are synchronously formed, and the auxiliary electrode 70 and the touchelectrode lead are insulated from each other.

The touch electrode lead is configured to: provide a touch drive signalfor the touch electrode and/or receive a touch induction signal.

When the touch electrode identifies a touch position in amutual-capacitance manner, the touch electrode may include a driveelectrode and an induction electrode. The drive electrode extends in afirst direction, the induction electrode extends in a second direction,and the first direction and the second direction are crossed. When thetouch electrode identifies a touch position in a self-capacitancemanner, touch electrodes may be arranged into an array.

Further, the touch electrode and the common electrode 50 may beinterchangeable. In this case, the touch position can be identified onlyin a self-capacitance manner.

The touch electrode and the touch electrode lead electrically connectedto the touch electrode are formed on the array board, so that when thearray board is applied to a liquid crystal display panel, the liquidcrystal display panel can have a touch function. On a basis of this, thetouch electrode lead and the auxiliary electrode 70 are synchronouslyformed, so that the quantity of times of using a pattern formingtechnology can be reduced.

Based on the foregoing possible production methods of an array board, asshown in FIG. 8, the production method of an array board may furtherinclude: before forming the first thin film transistor 30, forming abuffer layer 90 on a surface of the substrate 20. The first thin filmtransistor 30 is formed on one side that is of the buffer layer 90 andthat is away from the substrate 20.

The buffer layer 90 is formed on the surface of the substrate 20 first,and then the first thin film transistor 30 or even the second thin filmtransistor 80 is formed on the buffer layer 90. Therefore, the firstthin film transistor 30 and the second thin film transistor 80 can becombined with the substrate 20 more steadily; in addition, harmfulimpurities and ions in the substrate 20 can be prevented from spreadingto the first thin film transistor 30 and the second thin film transistor80, to avoid affecting performance of the first thin film transistor 30and the second thin film transistor 80.

The following provides a specific embodiment to describe a productionmethod of an array board in detail. As shown in FIG. 9A and FIG. 9B, theproduction method of an array board includes the following steps.

S10. As shown in FIG. 10a and FIG. 10b , form a buffer layer 90 on asurface of a substrate 20.

The buffer layer 90 may have a single-layer or multi-layer structure.When the buffer layer 90 has the single-layer structure, a material ofthe buffer layer 90 may be, for example, silicon oxide or siliconnitride. When the buffer layer 90 has the structure including two ormore layers, the buffer layer 90 may be a composite film layer of asilicon oxide layer and a silicon nitride layer.

S20. As shown in FIG. 10a and FIG. 10b , integrally form a first activelayer 302 and a second active layer 802 on the buffer layer 90 in eachsubpixel region.

Specifically, a silicon thin film may be deposited on the substrate 20on which the buffer layer 90 is formed, a polycrystalline thin film isformed through poly-crystallization processing, and the first activelayer 302 and the second active layer 802 shown in FIG. 10a and FIG. 10bare formed by using a pattern forming technology once. The patternforming technology includes steps such as masking, exposure,development, etching, and photoresist stripping.

For example, that a polycrystalline thin film is formed may be asfollows: A layer of amorphous silicon thin film is deposited on thebuffer layer 90 by using a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition(Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition, PECVD for short) method, anddehydrogenation technological processing is performed on the amorphoussilicon thin film by using a high-temperature oven, to avoid hydrogenexplosion in a crystallization process and reduce an effect ofdefect-mode density within the thin film after the crystallization.After the dehydrogenation technology is completed, a low-temperaturepolycrystalline silicon (Low Temperature Poly-Silicon, LTPS for short)technology process is performed, and crystallization processing isperformed on the amorphous silicon thin film by using a crystallizationmethod such as an excimer laser annealing (ELA) technology, a metalinduced crystallization (MIC) technology, and a solid phasecrystallization (SPC) technology, to form the polycrystalline siliconthin film on the buffer layer 90.

Alternatively, a silicon thin film may be deposited on the substrate 20on which the buffer layer 90 is formed. A reserved pattern is firstformed in a pre-determined region by using a pattern forming technologyonce, and then poly-crystallization processing is performed on thereserved pattern to form the first active layer 302 and the secondactive layer 802 shown in FIG. 10a and FIG. 10 b.

S30. As shown in FIG. 11a , FIG. 11b , and FIG. 11c , on a basis of S20,form a gate insulation layer 303 covering the substrate 20.

A material of the gate insulation layer 303 may include either ofsilicon oxide and silicon nitride.

S40. As shown in FIG. 11a , FIG. 11b , and FIG. 11c , on a basis of S30,form, in each subpixel region, a first gate electrode 304 and a secondgate electrode 804 that are respectively above the first active layer302 and the second active layer 802, where the second gate electrode 804is a part of a gate line 805, and the first gate electrode 304 iselectrically connected to the gate line 805; and perform ion injectionon the first active layer 302 and the second active layer 802 in aprocess of forming the first gate electrode 304 and the second gateelectrode 804, so that the first active layer 302 and the second activelayer 802 each include a channel region 3021, a source electrode region3022, and a drain electrode region 3023.

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 11b , when the source electrode region3022 and the drain electrode region 3023 each do not include a lightlydoped region 3024 and a heavily doped region 3025, after the first gateelectrode 304 and the second gate electrode 804 are formed, ioninjection may be performed on the first active layer 302 and the secondactive layer 802 as the first gate electrode 304 and the second gateelectrode 804 block ion injection, so that the first active layer 302and the second active layer 802 each include the channel region 3021,and the source electrode region 3022 and the drain electrode region 3023that are on two sides of the channel region 3021. The first gateelectrode 304 is corresponding to the channel region 3021 of the firstactive layer 302, the second gate electrode 804 is corresponding to thechannel region 3021 of the second active layer 802, and the sourceelectrode region 3022 of the first active layer 302 and the drainelectrode region 3023 of the second active layer 802 are connected as awhole.

As shown in FIG. 11c , when the source electrode region 3022 and thedrain electrode region 3023 each include a lightly doped region 3024 anda heavily doped region 3025, when the first gate electrode 304 and thesecond gate electrode 804 are formed, a photoresist may be exposed, forexample, by using a half-tone mask plate, so that a fully reserved partof the photoresist is corresponding to the first gate electrode 304 andthe second gate electrode 804, and a half reserved part of thephotoresist is corresponding to to-be-formed lightly doped regions 3024in the first active layer 302 and the second active layer 802. In thisway, after the photoresist is developed, ion injection may be firstperformed on the exposed first active layer 302 and second active layer802, to form the heavily doped regions 3025. Then, an ashing technologyis performed to remove the half reserved part of the photoresist, and anexposed gate metal thin film is etched, to form the first gate electrode304 and the second gate electrode 804. Next, ion injection is performedon the exposed first active layer 302 and second active layer 802 as thefirst gate electrode 304 and the second gate electrode 804 block ioninjection. Therefore, in addition to the heavily doped region 3025 andthe channel region 3021 corresponding to the first gate electrode 304and the second gate electrode 804, the lightly doped region 3024 isformed on each of the first active layer 302 and the second active layer802.

A material of each of the first gate electrode 304 and the second gateelectrode 804 may be, for example, molybdenum (Mo), aluminum(Al)/molybdenum, or copper (Cu).

S50. As shown in FIG. 12a and FIG. 12b , on a basis of S40, form aninter-layer insulation layer 305 covering the substrate 20, and form, ineach subpixel region, a source electrode 801 of a second thin filmtransistor, a data line 803 electrically connected to the sourceelectrode of the second thin film transistor, and a drain electrode 301of a first thin film transistor, where the drain electrode 301 of thefirst thin film transistor is in contact with the drain electrode region3023 of the first active layer 302, and the source electrode 801 of thesecond thin film transistor is in contact with the source electroderegion 3022 of the second active layer 802.

A material of each of the source electrode 801 of the second thin filmtransistor, the data line 803, and the drain electrode 301 of the firstthin film transistor may be, for example, Mo, Al/Mo, or Cu.

When the source electrode region 3022 and the drain electrode region3023 each include the lightly doped region 3024 and the heavily dopedregion 3025, the drain electrode 301 of the first thin film transistoris in contact with the heavily doped region 3025 of the first activelayer 302, and the source electrode 801 of the second thin filmtransistor is in contact with the heavily doped region 3025 of thesecond active layer 802.

S60. As shown in FIG. 13a and FIG. 13b , on a basis of S50, form a firstinsulation layer 200, where the first insulation layer 200 includes afirst via hole 201 exposing the drain electrode 301 of the first thinfilm transistor.

S70. As shown in FIG. 14a and FIG. 14b , on a basis of S60, form anauxiliary electrode 70 at the first via hole 201, where the auxiliaryelectrode 70 is electrically connected to a pixel electrode 40 by usingthe first via hole 201.

S80. As shown in FIG. 14c , on a basis of S70, form a second insulationlayer 202, where the second insulation layer 202 includes a second viahole 203, and an orthogonal projection of the second via hole 203 on thesubstrate 20 and an orthogonal projection of the first via hole 201 onthe substrate 20 overlap.

The second via hole 203 and the first via hole 201 form the foregoingvia hole 60.

S90. As shown in FIG. 6 and FIG. 8, on a basis of S80, form the pixelelectrode 40 in each subpixel region, where the pixel electrode 40 iselectrically connected to the auxiliary electrode 70 by using the secondvia hole 203.

S100. As shown in FIG. 6 and FIG. 8, on a basis of S90, form a thirdinsulation layer covering the substrate 20, and form a common electrode50, where an orthogonal projection of the common electrode 50 on thesubstrate 20 and an orthogonal projection of the pixel electrode 40 onthe substrate 20 do not overlap at the via hole 60 formed by the secondvia hole 203 and the first via hole 201.

When the common electrode and a touch electrode are interchangeable, thecommon electrode is electrically connected to a touch electrode lead.

The foregoing descriptions are only specific implementations of thepresent invention, but are not intended to limit the protection scope ofthe present invention. Any variation or replacement within the technicalscope disclosed in the present invention shall fall within theprotection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protectionscope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scopeof the claims.

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 15. An array board comprising: one or more pixels, eachpixel comprising: a first thin film transistor; a pixel electrode; acommon electrode; and an auxiliary electrode, wherein the first thinfilm transistor is disposed on a substrate, wherein the pixel electrodeis electrically connected to a drain electrode of the first thin filmtransistor by a via, wherein the auxiliary electrode is disposed at thevia, wherein the auxiliary electrode is disposed between the pixelelectrode and the drain electrode and the pixel electrode iselectrically connected to the drain electrode via the auxiliaryelectrode, wherein the common electrode is disposed on one side of thepixel electrode and away from the substrate, and wherein an orthographicprojection of the common electrode on the substrate and an orthographicprojection of the pixel electrode on the substrate do not overlap. 16.The array board of claim 15, further comprising a buffer layer disposedon a surface of the substrate on which the first thin film transistor,the pixel electrode, and the common electrode are disposed.
 17. Thearray board of claim 15, wherein the first thin film transistor is alow-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin film transistor.
 18. Thearray board of claim 17, further comprising a buffer layer disposed on asurface of the substrate on which the first thin film transistor, thepixel electrode, and the common electrode are disposed.
 19. The arrayboard of claim 17, wherein each pixel further comprises a second thinfilm transistor, wherein the second thin film transistor is alow-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin film transistor, andwherein the second thin film transistor and the first thin filmtransistor are connected in series.
 20. The array board of claim 19,further comprising a buffer layer disposed on a surface of the substrateon which the first thin film transistor, the pixel electrode, and thecommon electrode are disposed.
 21. The array board of claim 19, whereinthe first thin film transistor comprises a first active layer, andwherein the second thin film transistor comprises a second active layer,wherein each of the first active layer and the second active layercomprises a source electrode region, a channel region, and a drainelectrode region, and the source electrode region of the first activelayer is connected to the drain electrode region of the second activelayer, and wherein the drain electrode of the first thin film transistoris in contact with the drain electrode region of the first active layer,a source electrode of the second thin film transistor is in contact withthe source electrode region of the second active layer, and the sourceelectrode of the second thin film transistor is electrically connectedto a data line.
 22. The array board of claim 21, further comprising abuffer layer disposed on a surface of the substrate on which the firstthin film transistor, the pixel electrode, and the common electrode aredisposed.
 23. The array board of claim 21, wherein the first thin filmtransistor comprises a first gate electrode and the second thin filmtransistor comprises a second gate electrode, and wherein the first gateelectrode is electrically connected to the second gate electrode. 24.The array board of claim 23, further comprising a buffer layer disposedon a surface of the substrate on which the first thin film transistor,the pixel electrode, and the common electrode are disposed.
 25. Thearray board of claim 15, further comprising a touch electrode and atouch electrode lead electrically connected to the touch electrode,wherein the touch electrode lead and the auxiliary electrode aresynchronously formed, and wherein the auxiliary electrode and the touchelectrode lead are insulated from each other.
 26. The array board ofclaim 25, further comprising a buffer layer disposed on a surface of thesubstrate on which the first thin film transistor, the pixel electrode,and the common electrode are disposed.
 27. The array board of claim 25,wherein the touch electrode and the common electrode areinterchangeable.
 28. The array board of claim 27, further comprising abuffer layer disposed on a surface of the substrate on which the firstthin film transistor, the pixel electrode, and the common electrode aredisposed.
 29. A liquid crystal display panel comprising: an array boardcomprising: one or more pixels, each pixel comprising: a first thin filmtransistor; a pixel electrode; a common electrode; and an auxiliaryelectrode, wherein the first thin film transistor, the pixel electrodeand the common electrode are disposed on a substrate, wherein the pixelelectrode is electrically connected to a drain electrode of the firstthin film transistor by a via, wherein the auxiliary electrode isdisposed at the via, wherein the auxiliary electrode is disposed betweenthe pixel electrode and the drain electrode and the pixel electrode iselectrically connected to the drain electrode via the auxiliaryelectrode, and wherein the common electrode is disposed on a side of thepixel electrode away from the substrate, and wherein an orthographicprojection of the common electrode on the substrate and an orthographicprojection of the pixel electrode on the substrate do not overlap; acolor film substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between thearray board and the color film substrate.
 30. A method for producing anarray board, the method comprising: forming a first thin filmtransistor, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode on a substrate ineach pixel region, wherein the pixel electrode is electrically connectedto a drain electrode of the first thin film transistor by a via; andforming an auxiliary electrode at the via in each pixel region, whereinthe auxiliary electrode is located between the pixel electrode and thedrain electrode, and the pixel electrode is electrically connected tothe drain electrode via the auxiliary electrode, wherein an orthographicprojection of the common electrode on the substrate and an orthographicprojection of the pixel electrode on the substrate do not overlap. 31.The method of claim 30, further comprising: forming a second thin filmtransistor on the substrate in each pixel region, wherein the first thinfilm transistor and the second thin film transistor are low-temperaturepolycrystalline silicon thin film transistors and are connected inseries, and wherein the second thin film transistor and the first thinfilm transistor are formed at the same time.
 32. The method of claim 31,wherein the first thin film transistor comprises a first active layerand the second thin film transistor comprises a second active layer,wherein the first active layer and the second active layer eachcomprises a source electrode region, a channel region, and a drainelectrode region, wherein the source electrode region of the firstactive layer is connected to the drain electrode region of the secondactive layer, and wherein the drain electrode is in contact with thedrain electrode region of the first active layer, a source electrode ofthe second thin film transistor is in contact with the source electroderegion of the second active layer, and the source electrode of thesecond thin film transistor is electrically connected to a data line.33. The method of claim 32, wherein the first thin film transistorcomprises a first gate electrode, and the second thin film transistorcomprises a second gate electrode, and wherein the first gate electrodeis electrically connected to the second gate electrode.
 34. The methodof claim 33, further comprising: forming a touch electrode and a touchelectrode lead electrically connected to the touch electrode, whereinthe touch electrode lead and the auxiliary electrode are formed at thesame time, and wherein the auxiliary electrode and the touch electrodelead are insulated from each other.